Fascinating article, especially all the political reasons as to why Microsoft introduced Direct3D in the first place. "Direct3D was not an alternative to OpenG

Fascinating article, especially all the political reasons as to why Microsoft introduced Direct3D in the first place. "Direct3D was not an alternative to OpenGL [...] it was a designed to create a competitive market for 3D hardware"—and how it ultimately failed, with Direct3D becoming like OpenGL, more confusing, and paving way for the alluring simplicity of developing for a single hardware specimen—the Xbox.